[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 57 (Wednesday, May 11, 1994)]
[House]
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[Congressional Record: May 11, 1994]
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                        RAISING TAXES YET AGAIN

  (Mr. HOKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOKE. Madam Speaker, yet again the chairman of the House Ways and 
Means Committee is insistent on the need to raise taxes. This time, the 
Democrats' reason du jour is health care reform.
  In order to fund the President's massive new 98,000 person health 
bureaucracy and plug up what he has called ``a $40 billion hole'' in 
the President's projections, Chairman Rostenkowski says we have 
absolutely got to raise new broad-based taxes on the American people. 
More taxes.
  That is on top of President Clinton's record-breaking income tax 
hikes.
  That is in addition to President Clinton's gasoline tax hike.
  That is beyond the new Social Security taxes that the Democrats have 
imposed on the elderly.
  And let us not forget the new estate taxes that President Clinton 
imposed retroactively on dead people.
  Madam Speaker, there is just no end to the majority party's 
insatiable appetite for more and more taxes on more and more Americans. 
The Democrats may want to consider this modest proposal as an 
alternative to their endless taxing and spending: Stop spending so much 
money that you do not have.

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